News and Events - Musil Brescia

A walk through the waters north of Brescia, starting from the historic Mompiano Spring, passing through the Garza and Bova rivers, up to the Iron Museum.
- Meeting point: 9:00 AM, Mompiano metro station.
- After visiting the Spring with an A2A technician, the route will be divided into 3 stages, with residents sharing their stories of the place.
- Duration: 2 hours and 30 minutes.

The initiative is promoted by MUSIL and the Institute of Cultural Heritage Sciences of the National [...]

On Saturday, September 20, 2025, at 6:00 PM, at the Iron Museum "Lodovico Giordani" in San Bartolomeo (via del Manestro n.107 in Brescia), the "Flute Solo" concert with Laura Bersani will take place.

A member of the Altrevoci Ensemble, Laura Bersani’s extensive international activity includes the very recent recording of An Index of Metals, the latest work by composer Fausto Romitelli.

Artistic Direction: Rossano Pinelli

PROGRAM
J.S. Bach - Partita [...]

Friday 12 September 2025 in Milan, at the CNR Milan 1 Research Area (via A. Corti n. 12) will host the Conference "Reinventing Industrial Museums for a new image of ITaly". 

This is a moment of reflection among scholars and experts on the potential of Industrial Museums and the culture of work, to exchange experiences and good practices to reinvent their role and strengthen their community dimension, so as to make them more resilient to crisis factors.

The Conference [...]

MUSIL organizes an evening to look with new eyes at our most used sense: sight.

A playful lesson for adults and children starting from a question: can we always trust what we see? From optical illusions the easy answer.

In the second part, to be carried out strictly in the dark, with numerous experiments and demonstrations, we will talk about the light spectrum: from infrared, to visible light, up to ultraviolet. And starting from the latter, we will focus on a natural [...]

The musil – "Lodovico Giordani" Iron Museum presents a calendar of evening events, a concert, an urban walk, and a weekend of screenings dedicated to historical animation for the month of September. The initiatives take place at its headquarters in the San Bartolomeo District, at Via del Manestro 107, in Brescia.

Program

• September 6, from 8:30 PM – "Museum at Night"
  Discovering a city's heritage in a special light.
• September 12, 8:30 PM – "A World of Colors"
  [...]

MUSIL hosts, in the evocative spaces of its Cedegolo headquarters, an exhibition dedicated to the Olympic Games and the culture of sport. 

The initiative is part of the Project “EMOTION OF THE GAMES - CULTURES THROUGH SPORT - Itineraries in Lombardy for the «Cultural Olympics»”, promoted by Lombardy Region – Culture Directorate, realized by FICTS - Fédération Internationale Cinéma Télévision Sportifs as part of the Cultural Olympiad of the [...]

On Friday, August 22, 2025, at 8:30 PM, the Valle Camonica Hydroelectric Energy Museum (at Via Roma no. 48 in Cedegolo) will host the show "My Brother on the Trees".

Centopercento Teatro presents a theatre and aerial acrobatics show in which a child named Biagio divides himself into three and tries to confront his mythical and revolutionary older brother Cosimo, who had decided never to set foot on the ground again.

“I will not come down anymore!” thus, from the branch of an oak tree, a [...]

Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 August 2025 from 2:00 PM to 7:00 PM at MUSIL - Valle Camonica Hydroelectric Energy Museum (in via Roma n.48 in Cedegolo) will host "Carousel Weekend", a two-day non-stop event featuring the most famous Italian TV program: dozens of animations with Caio Gregorio, Tacabanda, Gringo, and many others.

Admission: full price €6.00, reduced price €4.00, free from the 2nd child (included) onwards, free for children under 6 years old.

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Sunday, August 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM at MUSIL - Hydroelectric Energy Museum of Valle Camonica (in via Roma no. 48 in Cedegolo) will host "Star-gazing: St. Lawrence's Night at the Telescope", the starry sky observed with a telescope on the most magical night of the year, St. Lawrence's Night.
With Prof. Andrea Zamboni (MUSIL's educational manager).

Admission: full price €6.00, reduced €4.00, free from the 2nd child (inclusive) onwards, free under 6 years old.
For information and [...]

MUSIL organizes an evening to explore the figure of Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), Serbian (later naturalized American) physicist and electrical engineer, famous for his discoveries and inventions in the field of electromagnetism.

At 6:00 PM, the evening begins with a historical and scientific overview of Tesla's figure, led by Andrea Zamboni (MUSIL's educational manager).

At 8:30 PM, there will be a screening of the film "Tesla's Tree": the story of the great scientist's [...]